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PREFACE
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Apology by the late Rev. James Riddell, published after his death by the delegates of the Clarendon Press. His account of Socrates is singularly striking. I found the very exact and literal translation of the Phædo into colloquial English by the late Mr. E. M. Cope often very useful in revising that dialogue. I have also to thank various friends for the patience with which they have looked over parts of my work in manuscript, and for the many valuable hints and suggestions which they have given me.
As a rule I have used the Zurich editors. Twice or thrice, in the Phædo, I have taken a reading from the text of Schanz: but it seems to me that what makes his edition valuable is its apparatus criticus rather than its text.
